I'm a youth services librarian at a medium-sized library in the thumb of Michigan. This is a blog to explore what goes on here as I navigate children and adults.

Monday, September 17, 2012

The Hardest Request

Today, I got one of the hardest types of request. The request for information without enough background information.

This person wanted to know what cemetery and plot two relatives were buried in. He didn't know the date of deaths. He didn't know the year of death.

What he did know was the names of the people. And where they lived and possibly died.

Unfortunately, neither I nor my supervisor could find any information on them. They didn't die in our county, so they're not in our Social Security Index (SSI). If they had been, it would have listed (at the least) the cemetery where they were buried.